Mentioned by Byron in 1810-09-25 to Hobhouse, to ThMoore 1813-08-28. See BLJ 3-102n for a translation of Maxime 85 (which offers an explanation of Byron’s wordplay).
Mentioned by Byron in 1810-09-25. "Thomas Hookham, Jr. (1787-1867) with his brother Edward conducted a publishing
and bookselling business at their father's circulating library at 15 Old Bond Street. He sold opera tickets it seems as well as books.…
"Galt also writes something not very intelligible about a “Spartan state paper” which by his account is anything but Laconic, now the said Sparta having some years ceased to be a state, what the devil does he mean by a paper?" 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse
"Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)was the daughter of the earl of Stanhope and the niece of William Pitt, for whom she had kept house. Brilliant, eccentric, and romantic, she traveled to the Levant in 1810 and ultimately established herself in a…